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If the mind reels before something thus alien to all we know,
we must take our stand on the things of this realm and strive
thence to see. But, in the looking, beware of throwing outward;
this Principle does not lie away somewhere leaving the rest void;
to those of power to reach, it is present; to the inapt, absent.
In our daily affairs we cannot hold an object in mind if we have
given ourselves elsewhere, occupied upon some other matter; that
very thing must be before us to be truly the object of
observation. So here also; preoccupied by the impress of
something else, we are withheld under that pressure from becoming
aware of The Unity; a mind gripped and fastened by some definite
thing cannot take the print of the very contrary. As Matter, it
is agreed, must be void of quality in order to accept the types
of the universe, so and much more must the soul be kept formless
if there is to be no infixed impediment to prevent it being
brimmed and lit by the Primal Principle.
In sum, we must withdraw from all the extern, pointed wholly
inwards; no leaning to the outer; the total of things ignored,
first in their relation to us and later in the very idea; the
self put out of mind in the contemplation of the Supreme; all the
commerce so closely There that, if report were possible, one
might become to others reporter of that communion.
Such converse, we may suppose, was that of Minos, thence known as
the Familiar of Zeus; and in that memory he established the laws
which report it, enlarged to that task by his vision There. Some,
on the other hand, there will be to disdain such citizen service,
choosing to remain in the higher: these will be those that have
seen much.
God- we read- is outside of none, present unperceived to all; we
break away from Him, or rather from ourselves; what we turn from
we cannot reach; astray ourselves, we cannot go in search of
another; a child distraught will not recognise its father; to
find ourselves is to know our source.
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